Playing without a CD

When installing, the game copies itself entirely to your hard drive, but it may require an original CD when you run it. Using CD slows down the game, takes more energy, activates the drive for no reason and restrains you from using other CDs instead.

The problem is easy to solve:

• Step 1.
  1. Find your Deus Ex directory. Usually it's either on your C: drive or C:\Program Files\.
  2. Open /System/ folder from your Deus Ex directory.
  3. Open a file called DeusEx.ini.
     
     If you're running Windows, it will open itself in Notepad and you will see these lines in the beginning:
     [URL]
     Protocol=deusex
     ProtocolDescription=Deus Ex Protocol
     Name=Player
     ...
     
  4. Then, scroll down a bit and find [Engine.Engine]. In this section, find a CdPath variableCdPath=...
  5. Set it to
     CdPath=..\
  6. Save/close the file.
• Step 2. You only need it if you use Deus Ex SoldOut edition or the step above didn't help you.
  1. Find your Deus Ex directory. Usually it's either on your C: drive or C:\Program Files\.
  2. Open /System/ folder from your Deus Ex directory.
  3. Download the patch (68 KB).
  4. Extract DeusEx.exe from the archive you downloaded to DeusEx/System/ folder. It will ask if you want to replace the file, choose "yes".

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